Needle felting is a magical and addicting art form that allows for lots of creativity! One technique that will help you progress in your needle felting is working with wire armature. A wire armature acts like a skeleton made of wire that you felt around. This can help to define your shapes as well as stabilize your felted creations. For those times when some additional structure is needed, using wire armatures can be very effective. Starting with partial armatures can help ease you into using wire in needle felting. It reduces the complexity and keeps your project manageable, while still allowing you to add detailed features and stability where needed.

Join me for this *beyond beginners* needle felting class where I teach you how to work with wire armature. In this 3.5 hour class, you’ll learn how to make a sheep with a premade partial wire armature. Skills taught in this class include how to wrap core wool around wire armature. How to carefully needle felt next to the wire to avoid breaking needles, and which needles to use when. How to use core wool to create the shapes and construct the sheep. How to create the wooly fleece of a sheep using a technique I developed using wool yarn. How to work with glass eyes. How to work with felt sheets. How to add embellishments to the design. This class is best suited to people that have had some prior basic needle felting experience.